I'd LOVE it if we could reach our goals together..I'm looking to pick up some properties wholesale. 200 "We Buy Houses" signs are going up around town, plus radio and TV ads. 

Think of how your wide screen TV looks.  

A Series LLC may be a wise idea for you, since you're looking to hold multiple properties in the near future.

The panel on the wall was wired for electric and an internet connection so they can put a TV there if they want or just hang a picture or mirror if that is their thing. 

Let's say, it costs you 1.5K to get your structures in place (holding LLC or Series-LLC, with or without land trusts, with or without separate operations LLC) and 0.5K per year (for maintaining the LLC properly, bookkeeping, lawyer and CPA, etc.) for a total of 2K.

With Series LLCs, that means minimum franchise tax fees of $800 a year for each series.

Fast forward past a wonderful job in CA, I had a series of awful jobs and thought, "there must be a better way". 

There has definitely been a shift recently.https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SEXRNSA

.($6500 deprecations on ¾ of a 225,000) +($2200 in property taxes. utilities and repairs) +($1000 in depreciation of furniture/TV/Appliances) +($2000 in mortgage interest) ($2500 state and local taxes.)That only equals $14,200, it’s hard to justify taking that over the standard deduction of $12,000 especially because I’ll have to pay back my deprecation eventually (I plan to do 1031 probably, but still ill have to pay it in the future).4.

Rather than get into a complicated series of "consulting contracts" preemptively with each potential Buyer, I was hoping to find a simpler way to collect a referral fee once I'd already done some preliminary vetting.